General view of Peshawar — looking towards Khyber. Photographer: Burke, John
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Genre: Landscape Photography View across the cantonment area of the city towards St John's Church, with snow-clad mountains in the distance. Reproduced in Omar Khan, 'From Kashmir to Kabul. The photographs of John Burke and William Baker 1860-1900' (Prestel, 2002), plate 3, and there dated 1860...
Buddhist Tope Ispola — between Ali Musjid and Landi Kotal. Photographer: Burke, John
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Genre: Archaeological Photography General view of the Buddhist stupa, standing on a ridge overlooking the valley between Ali Masjid and Landi Kotal in the Khyber Pass. See also print 42.
General view Ispola and Sultan Kheyl villages — showing Buddhist Tope. Photographer: Burke, John
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Genre: Landscape Photography Distant view, looking along the valley towards the stupa of Ispola and the villages of Sultan Khel. For a closer view of the stupa, see print 41. Another copy at Photo 430/2 (18).
Buddhist temple — excavated at Ali Musjid. Photographer: Burke, John
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Inscription: Signed 'Burke 60' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the base of an excavated stupa at Ali Masjid, with friezes of lion figures and niches containing Buddha images. Another copy at Photo 430/2 (16).
Bassaule — the Hill of Caves. Photographer: Burke, John
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Inscription: Signed 'Burke 70' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the Kabul River at Basawal towards the sheer rock face beyond, dotted with the entrances to Buddhist cave temples and monastic cells. Another copy at Photo 430/2 (28).
[View of the Acropolis from the north-east.] Photographer: Beck, H.
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Inscription: Signed in the negative, ‘H. Beck. Athènes.’ Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the rooftops of Athens towards the Acropolis Hill. A house in the middle distance has been ringed in pencil.